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An English professor has been hacked to death with machetes in an attack authorities believe was carried out by Islamist militants.

Rezaul Karim Siddique died after being hit from behind as he walked to a bus station in Rajshahi, in the north west of Bangladesh.

The 58-year-old taught English at the city’s public university.

The city’s police commissioner, Mohammad Shamsuddin, said: ‘His neck was hacked at least three times and was 70-80% slit,” said Rajshahi police commissioner . “By examining the nature of the attack, we suspect that it was carried out by extremist groups.’